How do you set the default dashboard for a project?

[Steve Bastick]

This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: Configuring dashboards

In the intro of this article, it says "Each project has a default dashboard". However, I can not find anywhere in the system to set the default dashboard for a project. And the user documentation does not seem to cover it either? Can anyone help?

[Aylin Kohls · Accepted solution]

Hi Steve.

There´s no such thing as default dashboard for a project. Documentation is fuzzy, it says "Each project has a default dashboard, or you can create a personal dashboard and add gadgets to keep track of assignments and issues you're working on"

So, you can have a dashboard and use it as a default (asking the rest of the project team set it as favorite), but there is no way to set it as default as a feature.

Regards! Aylin.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yes, that is very poorly worded.  By "default dashboard", they were actually trying to say "the project information / header", which is absolutely not a "dashboard" in the sense of the word used everywhere else!

[Deleted user]

So in other words....to have a "Project Dashboard"...you effectively have to go create your own blank page, and add the dashboard gadgets.

Brilliant. Not. 

EVERY project, should have a default page that is its dashboard, that can be seen by all team members, when the project is created.

[Sergei Wallace]

So is it just not possible to have user-specific default dashboards on the home page? Will it always start with the System Dashboard?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, it'll start with the dashboard the user selects.

[Simon Keppeler]

Really? And where I can set this configuration?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

What configuration?  There's nothing to configure here.

[Simon Keppeler]

Where can you set your default dashbourd?

At the moment Jira starts with your last clicked dashboard. You don´t have a possibility to set your own dashboard.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You don't, as we already discussed above.